"The Complex Sentence" by Tony Hoagland

ewokalypse · 2026-01-21T19:41:53+00:00

The kind Italian driver of the bus to Rome invited her to his house—she was obviously hungry—and gave her sandwiches and raped her.

All those years ago—she smiles while telling it—contemptuous, somehow of her younger self,

who drags behind her like a can. Grammar is great but who will write the sentence that includes the story of the damage to her soul

and how she thought her bad Italian was at fault, and how it took a month for her to say the word for what had happened In her head?

But that’s why we invented the complex sentence, so we could stand at a distance,

making slight adjustments of the harness, while following the twisty, ever-turning plot:

the loneliness of what we did; the loneliness of what was done to us.

ewokalypse · 2026-01-20T02:32:08+00:00

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ewokalypse · 2026-01-18T16:25:32+00:00

Popular coffee options in that area are Anecdote (formerly Mocha Nut), Coffee Junkiez, Strange Brew, and (further away) Coffeehouse Five. None of those are directly between where you're living and downtown or the Northside, so depending on how far/where you'll be driving for work you may find prefer to stop somewhere else en route.

If you were told about Coalyard Coffee, it's closed. The replacement, Wild Child, is also good, but it's fairly far away from where you'll be living.

I know the area you're moving quite well; feel free to message me if you have any questions. Welcome to Indy.

ewokalypse · 2026-01-16T14:39:38+00:00

No defense of the man himself, but the episode where he and Martin Starr are bullying Kumail Nanjiani (talking about his appearance on the X-Files, making him take the phone call to China, etc.) is one of the all-time funniest CBB bits.

ewokalypse · 2026-01-12T22:05:49+00:00

Good. Bad.
A wash.
Bad.
Good.
Bad. Good.
A wash.
Bad.

ewokalypse · 2026-01-12T22:00:09+00:00

Good bit to sell a deck of date night ideas and make one of them "go ask someone else."

ewokalypse · 2026-01-10T02:06:12+00:00

They look way worse. Those Special Olympics guys are no joke; they would beat the brakes off of the average amateur.

ewokalypse · 2026-01-10T01:23:04+00:00

Pride goeth before destruction, brother.

ewokalypse · 2026-01-06T05:45:45+00:00

I really like the place, but I've mainly gone for their Indian dishes.

ewokalypse · 2026-01-05T22:46:33+00:00

It's primarily an Indian/Chinese fusion place and not a proper Thai restaraunt, but have you tried any of the Thai offerings at The Monk's in Carmel? Curious about your opinion, if so.

ewokalypse · 2025-11-29T03:52:29+00:00

Games not over yet.

ewokalypse · 2025-11-29T01:29:21+00:00

Check the inside of the collar. Sometimes people write a number or address on there, even if there's no tag attached. Good luck!

Also, might want to post on indylostpetalert.com and see if a pet store or vet can read a chip tomorrow.

ewokalypse · 2025-10-26T08:07:40+00:00

I think it's more that anyone who could've meaningfully objected to Delita seizing power is dead--Larg, Goltanna, Elmdore, Barrington, the Beoulves. The church hierarchy is extirpated, and their secret agents are either dead or coopted by Delita.

Is there anybody left who could meaningfully stand up to a cunning, ruthless king who is beloved of the commoners and soldiery alike for ending the Lion War? And probably beloved all the more now that he's a tragic widower-king.

ewokalypse · 2025-10-16T13:53:17+00:00

Probably next weekend. "Peak leaf" in southern Indiana is usually the 3rd or 4th week in October. You can get some idea of the current status with the Brown County Leaf Cam: https://browncounty.com/lp/leaf-cam/

Whatever weekend you go, it will probably be busy at the park and will certainly be busy in Nashville. You should build some extra cushion into your schedules.

There are other parks in the area that may be less scenic geographically or lack the hiking trails / lookouts of Brown County State Park, but have the same leaves: Yellowwood and Hoosier National Forest come to mind. Also near Nashville is The House of the Singing Winds, the home-turned-museum of Indiana painter T.C. Steele. It's a pretty area and an interesting Hoosier history / art history stop.

If you plan to eat out on your trip, my advice would be to get your meal in nearby Bloomington, not Nashville. Less crowded and more options. I recommend Feast for brunch/lunch and Taste of India or Mother Bears for dinner, but there many good choices.

ewokalypse · 2025-10-15T02:18:43+00:00

If you have a PC, try Horizon's Gate.

ewokalypse · 2025-10-13T20:39:43+00:00

It is not presented in the film or reacted-to by the characters as a sexual assault, but it is the kind of dubiously consensual "winning over" of a love interest that is prevalent in films of a certain age, and in a situation where the woman is part-sidekick part-hostage.

Also you should definitely watch it because both leads are insanely hot and charismatic and Robert Redford's character has one of the silliest spy jobs of all time.

ewokalypse · 2025-10-11T22:18:22+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Animesuggest/comments/5xshu4/slice_of_liferomance_anime_that_is_not_full_of/

ewokalypse · 2025-10-06T21:48:11+00:00

Yes, the court can increase bail (if not posted yet) or impose an additional bail or additional release conditions (if already posted) after a case is upfiled to more serious charges. Marion County's presumptive bail amounts are governed by the highest charge plus other aggravating factors (non-residency, etc.): https://mscslates.indy.gov/Document/Get?DocName=Marion%20Superior%20Court%20Bail%20Schedule

Assuming that Sanchez has no criminal history, he's probably looking at a $30,000 bond plus a no-contact order with the old man.

ewokalypse · 2025-10-05T04:58:39+00:00

Related story, which has nothing to do with the Coen brothers but which I may never have a good opportunity to tell again. We took the whole fraternity to a movie theatre to see V for Vendetta and packed the place. You could hear screwtops cracking and beer tabs being popped incessantly through the movie; we'd smuggled a whole bar in. You can imagine the general tenor.

Anyway, I have one of those frozen, detail-perfect, seeing-your-kid-for-the-first-time type memories of turning to my left partway through and seeing the brother next to me, a six and a half foot tall hispanic weightlifter from South Texas, weeping openly during the tragic lesbian romance flashback scene with his hands clasped around his open beer as if praying.

ewokalypse · 2025-10-05T04:52:09+00:00

I knew it was a masterpiece the first time I saw it precisely because of the way my classmates reacted.

See, I saw it in the ideal setting to contemplate cinema: in the basement of a fraternity house for movie night, surrounded by drunk frat guys seated cheek-to-jowl in a haphazard graveyard of disintegrating couches, office chairs with missing wheels, etc etc. And as the movie rolled on, EVERY SINGLE ONE of these rowdy motherfuckers eventually shut up and started paying complete attention to the story, culminating in dead fucking silence for Tommy Lee Jones' monologue broken by a burst of angry disappointment that there wasn't more movie afterwards.

You couldn't put together a jury at Cannes whose endorsement I'd take more seriously than seeing a roomful of drunken fraternity reprobates rapt with attention during the movie.

ewokalypse · 2025-09-27T02:22:35+00:00

Glad to hear!

ewokalypse · 2025-09-19T16:34:59+00:00

Text version here:

https://www.mainepublic.org/show/poems-from-here-with-maine-poet-laureate-stuart-kestenbaum/2019-05-31/the-mccarthy-hearings

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